Apr 23, 2012 By Todd Starnes Religious liberty groups are blasting a proposed ordinance that would force churches in Hutchinson, Kan. to rent their facilities for gay weddings and gay parties.

The Hutchinson City Council will consider adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the protected classes in the citys human relations code. They are expected to vote on the changes next month.

According to the Hutchinson Human Relations Commission, churches that rent out their buildings to the general public would not be allowed to discriminate against a gay couple who want to rent the building for a party.

Meryl Dye, a spokesperson for the Human Relations Commission confirmed to Fox News that churches would be subjected to portions of the proposed law.

They would not be able to discriminate against gay and lesbian or transgender individuals, Dye said. That type of protection parallels to what you find in race discrimination. If a church provides lodging or rents a facility they could not discriminate based on race. Its along that kind of thinking.

Matthew Staver, chairman of the Liberty Counsel Action, told Fox News the proposed law is un-American.

It is a collision course between religious freedom and the LGBT agenda, Staver said. This proposed legislation will ultimately override the religious freedom that is protected under the First Amendment.

In my hometown the Baptist Church is made of white brick. The church built a building across the street and matched the brick. It is rented out to the general public. One day a black woman called and wanted to use the building. She was told the fee and the woman said they couldn’t charge her a fee because it is a government building. When asked why she thought it was a government building she said “Because all buildings made of white brick are government buildings.”

I have a feeling before too long the church will have to start allowing certain people to use it for free.

Perfect example of how gay "rights" isn't about procuring rights, it's about removing them -- taking away peoples' right to turn away open homosexuality peacefully and civilly.

Any business or organization can voluntarily pretend "marry" publicly two people of the same sex, and they're perfectly free to do so, and gay couples can behave as they please. By the same token, if churches and businesses and organizations and communities opt to turn away any dealings with openly homosexual "customers," that's their right, too. Gay "rights" seek to deny that right, and anti-discrimination laws have gone a long way to fomenting footing for an immoral lifestyle that's now infecting teens.

Limited government conservative philosophy is one that's a friend to morality -- the biggest opponent to Americans' living morally IS the government!

Law hasn't been passed yet, only proposed. Time for revolution.. when and if it passes. Or Obama implements the policy by executive order, stating, "We Can't Wait" or some other happy horse pucky, like he did when the EPA declared CO2 to be a pollutant. (Nobody asked the trees and other green plants). Or when he mandated that Churches and religious institutions such as hospitals run by religious orders, would have to pay for birth control if they offered health insurance to their employees.

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posted on 04/24/2012 12:38:57 AM PDT
by El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)

There are 42k residents of the city. If you use known statistics...the Catholic, Baptist, and Christian Churches in the area make up around 27 percent of the population. I could count the Methodists for 17 percent...but I suspect that they might have been the ones behind this law change.

I’m pretty sure if they all united under one umbrella...they could pull down at least one member of the city council. If you note their city gov’t....it consists of one mayor, one vice-mayor, one at-large city council person, and two other city council folks.

But let me add this. Someone has likely come along with an agenda to divide the town. Some naive individuals have sat in a meeting and bought off on various rule changes....without really considering where it leads to. I think the ultimate goal here....divide up the town into two camps and keep them focused on some division. They didn’t have to pick on this church rule....but obviously, it was pulled out of a magician’s hat and made into a division topic.

As a Christian I could NOT perform /nor allow such blasphemy be allowed desecrate Sacred Ground. If Hutchinson KS chooses to REPROBATE and make all there be as Sodom or like unto Gomorrah it is high time for the righteous to hear the prophet and “Come out of her My people!” God knows how to provide salvation to the righteous but Hutchinson KS ought consider what will happen when God cannot find even ten righteous men in that wicked City?

Several years ago our congregation already adopted a resolution that we will only allow use of our building to church members, or those whom are sponsored by members, in anticipation of Maryland allowing same sex marriage.

I still don’t understand this need, both by apostate Catholics and the government, for the sacrament of Matrimony! Marriage, so far as most governments are concerned,is a civil union, and those governments accept reception of the sacrament as proof of the civil union (although France and perhaps other European countries require a separate civil ceremony). There can’t be any question at all that this administration, along with the gay-lesbian community, need the complicity of the Church to accomplish their social-engineering ends. And it’s not going to happen.

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